http://redstatefeminists.org Red State Feminists en-us Wed, 09 May 2012 23:41:41 -0700 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#obamasame Red State Feminists have, like every other American, watched the headlines this week and shaken our heads. North Carolina bans same-sex marriage in a constitutional amendment that cannot be overruled by the judicial branch of its state government. Ironically, Bill Clinton, he who as president signed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), robo-called North Carolinians to urge them to vote against that amendment. And in the same week, President Obama (not to mention the Vice President) announces that he believes same-sex couples should have the right to marry. Wed, 09 May 2012 23:41:41 -0700 RSSPECT-001942417 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#stim According to Richard A. Friedman, professor of psychiatry, "the number of Ritalin and Adderall prescriptions written for active-duty service members increased by nearly 1,000 percent in five years, to 32,000 from 3,000." Wed, 02 May 2012 22:33:32 -0700 RSSPECT-001917131 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#fpsex Red State Feminists have gobbled up the latest online issue of Foreign Policy Magazine (FP)--it's their "Sex Issue." Now, some of you may be asking, what does sex have to do with foreign policy? This issue answers that question. Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:24:18 -0700 RSSPECT-001894341 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#asmaa Red State Feminists were happily amazed to hear the news story about the efforts of the wives of UN ambassadors from European countries to reach Asmaa al-Assad, the wife of Bashar al-Assad, the dictator of Syria. Because there was no way to reach her in person, they launched a 4 minute YouTube video addressed to her. This is the first instance we know of of woman-to-woman diplomacy, where women--simply because they are women--call upon influential women to step up to the plate in the name of peace. Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:07:25 -0700 RSSPECT-001872482 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#babycontrib The real question here for those without children is, "What's in it for me?" Is there any benefit to non-parents from the birth of a child? Should society and all of its members, even the childless, see themselves as having a stake in each baby born? Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:05:37 -0700 RSSPECT-001854121 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#gopgap Red State Feminists are sorrowful to see a very large gender gap developing for the GOP. Indeed, the gap is so great at this point, that Obama seems assured of a second term in office. There is every indication that American women will swing the election in his favor. It did not have to be this way. Even if you are pro-life, as most Red State Feminists are, there was a better way than the path the GOP primaries have taken in this regard. Rather than start talking about trans-vaginal ultrasounds, rather than start suggesting that health insurance need not cover birth control, the GOP candidates could have made the same points in a different way completely and not have alienated women. Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:52:43 -0700 RSSPECT-001832511 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#emmy Red State Feminists is delighted that for two days straight, an article about Amalie Noether has remained one of the most emailed articles from the New York Times. Amalie Noether is certainly a name worth rescuing from the alipstream of history. She was one of the foremost mathematicians of her day--but she is almost completely forgotten. Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:40:02 -0700 RSSPECT-001812830 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#afterbirth Red State Feminists thought it was a joke . . . an article, ostensibly published by the Journal of Medical Ethics, on "after-birth abortion." It must be a joke because, after all, once a child is "after birth," there is no such thing as "abortion." The proper term would be infanticide, which is considered under all law as being equivalent to murder. So this must be some type of joke, right? Well, in another sign of the times, apparently not. Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:55:15 -0700 RSSPECT-001766618 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#winter It's been a winter of discontent for women, but Jessica Winter gives us the best medicine at all--she lets us laugh at what's been going on! Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:38:28 -0800 RSSPECT-001753149 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#santorum It's just been one catatrophe after another for Rick Santorum with the ladies. Do you remember them all? Let's recount a few. Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:05:33 -0800 RSSPECT-001729154 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#licia Red State Feminists have never thought of the EU governance structure as especially interesting, much less inspiring. Until today. For today, we saw some photos taken inside the EU Parliament that made us really sit up and take notice! Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:35:06 -0800 RSSPECT-001707197 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#travers Red State Feminists, as our readers know, are fond of rescuing obscure but significant historical figures from the slipstream of time. Today our subject is Susan Travers, the only woman ever admitted into the French Foreign Legion. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:52:08 -0800 RSSPECT-001685455 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#lactation1 Well, today we have another case from the Crazy Judge file: Judge Lynn Hughes of Houston, Texas, who ruled that breastfeeding is unrelated to pregnancy and childbirth. Yes, you heard right--casting aside everything we have known for millenia about human physiology, an American judge has rewritten the tenets of biology. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:43:17 -0800 RSSPECT-001669170 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#mildred As readers know, Red State Feminists like to rescue important stories from the slipstream of history. Today we pluck from the slipstream Mildred Hemmon Carter. Her name graced the news for one day in connection with the new George Lucas film, Red Tails, about the Tuskegee airmen--black airmen during World War II. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:31:20 -0800 RSSPECT-001639863 http://redstatefeminists.org/blog.html#cnngingrich Gingrich apparently lied about what happened in his first divorce. He was committing adultery, and wanted to dump the mother of his children. Indeed, the treasurer of Gingrich's first congressional campaign, "Kip" Carter, said, "it was Newt Gingrich who wanted the divorce. "He (Gingrich) said, 'You know and I know that she's not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of a president.' " Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:54:43 -0800 RSSPECT-001566834